1. The Raven • Poe focused on the fantastic and the gothic • Escaped reality • Explored dark fantasies and impulses • Poe often deals with madness • The Raven is about lost love. • It also explores how grief and loneliness can turn to madness.

2. Terminology • Alliteration - the repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginning of words. Alliteration is marked in blue. • Assonance - the repetition of vowel sounds, usually within words. Assonance is marked in purple. • Internal rhyme - the rhyming of words within a line of poetry, not just at the end of the lines. Internal rhymes are marked in red.

3. http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/raven/index.htmlhttp://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/raven/index.html • http://legacy.teachersfirst.com/share/raven/st1.html

4. Group task Choose a color for: • Alliteration • Assonance • Internal Rhyme • Create a key • Color code ALL examples in your stanzas • Choose 5 words (unfamiliar or important) to look up in a dictionary. Write the definitions